In the past when I have had trouble with a build, it has been a configuration error in my environment. I use Eclipse for development and build, so that may be different, but you really didn't give us much to go on. Are you using an IDE or just plain Ant?
-----Original Message----- From: Matt Barron [mailto:mfb...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 15, 2016 9:38 AM To: user@poi.apache.org Subject: Trouble building 3.15 Hi, I am fairly new to building POI, but I have set up all of the dependencies on my machine and I have yet to have it build successfully. So I am just looking for some pointers to get it kicked off. Build environment information: [echo] Using Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.7 compiled on April 9 2016 from /home/matt/build_tools/apache-ant-1.9.7, Ant detected Java 1.8 (may be different than actual Java sometimes...) [echo] Using Java: 1.8.0_101/1.8.0_101-b13/25.101-b13/OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM from Oracle Corporation on Linux: 4.7.0-1-default [echo] Using Findbugs: 3.0.1 for Java 1.8.0_101 The compile target runs with no issue, but the test target fails with the following message under test-ooxml: [junit] Running org.apache.poi.xssf.streaming.TestSXSSFSheetAutoSizeColumn [junit] Tests run: 26, Failures: 1, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.149 sec BUILD FAILED /home/matt/javaLibraries/apache-poi/trunk/build.xml:1443: The following error occurred while executing this line: /home/matt/javaLibraries/apache-poi/trunk/build.xml:1396: Tests failed If I run the jar target, it similarly fails under compile-ooxml-lite with the following message: [java] Time: 113.927 [java] There was 1 failure: [java] 1) test_WindowSizeEqualsOne_flushedRowHasMergedCell[0: useMergedCells=false](org.apache.poi.xssf.streaming.TestSXSSFSheetAutoSizeColumn) [java] java.lang.AssertionError: Expected a column width greater than 5000 but found 4971 [java] at org.junit.Assert.fail(Assert.java:88) [java] at org.junit.Assert.assertTrue(Assert.java:41) [java] at org.apache.poi.xssf.streaming.TestSXSSFSheetAutoSizeColumn.assertColumnWidthStrictlyWithinRange(TestSXSSFSheetAutoSizeColumn.java:373) [java] at org.apache.poi.xssf.streaming.TestSXSSFSheetAutoSizeColumn.test_WindowSizeEqualsOne_flushedRowHasMergedCell(TestSXSSFSheetAutoSizeColumn.java:216) (...truncated lines...) [java] at org.apache.poi.util.OOXMLLite.build(OOXMLLite.java:129) [java] at org.apache.poi.util.OOXMLLite.main(OOXMLLite.java:88) [java] [java] FAILURES!!! [java] Tests run: 2022, Failures: 1 [java] [java] Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: Tests did not succeed, cannot build ooxml-lite jar [java] at org.apache.poi.util.OOXMLLite.build(OOXMLLite.java:131) [java] at org.apache.poi.util.OOXMLLite.main(OOXMLLite.java:88) Thanks in advance, Matt
